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Haven't got much new to add on the topic of tick counts except that Cynthia
Kase contends that tick bar charts give you a 15% advantage in timing over
time bar charts everything else equal. I stopped making counts when it
became obvious that others had gone the same route and came to the same
conclusions. Whether it was in Texas, Canada, Florida, Massachussets, the
path was similar. Drop BMI. Don't use ProSuite with the BMI Data Manager.
Dedicate a computer for data acquisition. Make that one with a fast
cpu(faster the better, a dual 600EBMhz is equivalent to a 1.5gighz), plenty
of memory(256 or 512meg) so disk swaps are not necessary, or if they are use
a fixed swap file size to keep windows from fragmenting the rest of the
drive and locate it to the outer edge of the drive, use scuzzies or udma66,
go to windows2000, partition it with system and applications in different
partitions, use a larger buffered serial port such as TE920, or a USB port.
One surprising result was that esignal via dsl modem gave similar emini
counts as dtn satellite(115MHz to 400MHz), that was on a dual cpu with
scuzzies. A recent test using W2000 and a TE920 port(64byte buffer) gave
same results as W2000 on a standard serial port(16 byte buffer) both running
ProSuite. That adds to what DTN Chameleon manual said about W98 not
servicing the serial ports as well as W95. Looks like w2000 corrected that.
Wonder how Millenium Edition will compare. I had initially focussed on the
emini as a test for tick counts until I discovered that stocks like CSCO and
MSFT had orders of magnitudes more ticks and greater percentage losses on
BMI and I suspect DBC satellite also but have no proof of it for DBC sat.
That was when the decision to switch rather than fight was easy to make.
Once you start getting all or nearly all the ticks the buy/sell signals
become clearer and your confidence in trading should improve.
BobR
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred <srqblue@xxxxxxxx>
To: ted stampeen <tedco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: TICK COUNT
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 17:59:37 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >HI all,
> > I'm currently using DBC-sat-feed real time, I know they
> >are slow, but I'm wondering just by how much.
> >
> > I'm trading the e-mini, so I was wondering if someone here, using
another
> >feed , wouldn't mind telling me on average how many ticks
> >they receive for the day session e-mini (sp)and bonds.
> >
> > thanks in advance for your time.
> >
> > Ted
>
>
> <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> has got to be the world's expert on this.
> Try emailing him and asking for a re-post of some of his extensive
> work results.
>
> Fred
>
>
> "Success is the only test of genius" -R.Adm Daniel Gallery 1901-1977
>
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